Day in photos: July 30, 2012

Hot air balloons wowed thousands of visitors to the New Jersey Festival of Ballooning in Readington, one of the country’s largest hot air balloon events.

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The mangled wreckage of a school bus is seen following a collision with a train in Kotmehatab, India. Four schoolchildren were killed and 11 injured.

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A rebel fighter uses a hole in a wall as he aims his rifle in Aleppo. Syrian forces and rebels clashed violently Monday before dawn as the battle for control of the northern city raged into a third day.

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Two women pose during the Carnaval des Fleurs (Carnival of Flowers) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The three-day festival began Sunday with a parade, concerts and street dancing.

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A Chinese girl looks up to the sky as she holds an umbrella beside a water fountain during heavy rain in Beijing.

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People walk on the beach of Kampen on the German North Sea island of Sylt in northern Germany.

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Girls practice during a ballet class at a dancing school in Haikou, China.

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A man cools down in a fountain during a hot day in Minsk, Belarus.

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A Kashmiri vegetable vendor takes a nap in his boat at Dal Lake in Srinagar.

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Houses submerged by flood waters are seen in Anju City on the west coast of North Korea. At least 88 people have been killed and more than 63,000 were left homeless in North Korea after a week of torrential rains.

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A man collects recyclable materials from debris in the waters of Manila Bay after tropical storm Saola hit the Philippines.

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A Hindu devotee takes a bath in the Bagmati River for Shravan festivities before heading to the Pashupatinath Temple to offer prayers to Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction.

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People throw colored powder into the air during the Holi Festival in Berlin, Germany. The original Holi, also known as the festival of colors, is celebrated in India and other Hindu countries.

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A motorist, right, who got out of her car argues with a demonstrator as civil servants — which included transport workers, police and firemen — out of uniform blocked traffic during a protest against government cuts, in Madrid. Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has been introducing successive rounds of austerity measures aimed at preventing the country from being forced into a public finance bailout.

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The wreck of a minibus is seen in Bratoszewice near Lodz, Poland. Eight people were killed and two injured when a train hit the minibus.